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Question Quotes by Ayn Rand
- I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.
- The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get stuck on any particular point and…
- The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.
- [What for] was the first question he asked about any activity proposed to him - and nothing would make him act, if he found no…
- The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive — a…
- Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global spread of brutality…
- The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
- Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do…
- It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like…
- It's not a question of who will allow me to do it, it's a question of who will stop me.
- The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense…
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